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THEY ALL GOT DRUNK IN THE COUNTY JAILBootleggers Awaiting the DistrictedWcbepilt;Dctieloifit PI111 icaCourt Get Access to Padded thCell Where Booze Is Stored— And My, My How They Didlipin,lieGet Stewed! 1 1 - planegaratshi'llitlt;1 ilt;ArbeviiofmiBy reaching in through the smalt 1 door Lie finally hooked a can. Drag ® ging it over to the bide of the cell d wall, he managed to pull it up along the wall to the opening. One of the V other fellows, who had been eagerly n watching the work grabbed at the can (,n* and got a fine grip on the screw top.° “I’ve got it. I’ve got it,” he shunted* to his confederates as he unscrewed 'the top and stuck his tongue over on ^■' wet opening. “Gosh, it’s good,” he gasped to tlie other boys. “Get a cup ‘quick.” A cup was put into play at 8 once. The cup was set in front of theA bars and while one o ft he boys dumpr cd the liquid through the opening inr to the cup, it was swallowed up bythe mad bunch. f When Sheriff Posse came in heI found the boys pifflicated and one of the cans nearly empty The boys had (]y* drunk nearly a gallon ot the clear al jj0 5- cohol. Stewed to the gills! That’s^ i just the condition Sheriff Fosse found of the bootleggers, confined in the coun y,lt; *- fy jail, to be in when he opened the cell m door the latter part of last week to pt. ” see how they were getting along.‘x The alleged bootleggers had boonk placed in the county jail awaiting their A’ trial at the next session of the Dis- Nlt;11let court. tad One of the boys confined, happened wito peer into the small bared door of ^ the padded ceil, lie spied the many gallon cans of alcohol stored there, r These cans were confiscated some IHJ time ago at the Hock Island depot and 1,1II Dr. Cunningham was arrested charg ed with being the owner of them.n; After some planning among the* *un I very “dry” boys, a long window hook 11 ^ was taken from a window. One ot the ^ boys, W'ith the longest arm was dele 1! gated to get toe booze, d We won’t tell the public what theSheriff said to the prisoners when he discovered what they had been up toHthhr
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Albert Lea Times Enterprise
Albert Lea, Minnesota, US
Wed, Jul 13, 1921
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